BooBoo Boo. I thought this would be able to make me some thing like a Manhattan or a martini .
Japan's Robo-Bartenders point to a golden future
Not content with wowing the world with the posterior polishing wizardry of their electronic toilet seats, the Japanese have turned their attention to that other first world problem: pouring of the perfect pint. In the past, thirsty customers have had to rely on the vagaries of the human/beer interface (more commonly known as …
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 13:56 GMT Goldmember
Those do exist. I was served a cocktail in a Las Vegas bar which was mixed by a robot. Here it is in action:
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Wednesday 21st February 2018 00:07 GMT The Oncoming Scorn
Re: Nice idea, but...
Skinners - Cornish brewery, I used to hang out with the sales guy on occasion.
I just dumped a whole load of their t-shirts\sweatshirts down at the local thrift store, not worn them since I emigrated.
I also had to dump a whole load of their Betty Stogs mugs before leaving the country, someone in my household objected to me making a comment about the resemblance to her mother.
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Thursday 1st March 2018 09:03 GMT wallaby
Re: Nice idea, but...
"just keep the glass tilter"
for hand pulled cask !!!!!!!
glass should be vertical at all times, sparkler (or not - for the heathen southern jessies) should be firmly against the bottom of the glass in the centre. Every cask is different requiring a different pull technique.
If I were drinking lager and someone poured me a glass with a head that big in the clip I'd be sending it back for a top up
(former winner of numerous CAMRA awards).
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 13:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
If I was in an esteemed drinking establishment (or pub) and I was served such a beer as displayed in that video my response to the bar keep would be "Have you got a flake to put in that?"
My own personal preference is 2mm for lager and 5mm for bitter. If I wanted a moustache I would grow one.
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 13:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
I like my beer cold thanks and where I am in the north the pints are served as described. My mother is also a barmaid at the local working men's club where they have an artist on every Saturday the likes of which you will never see on television. I don't have a whippet but I sometimes eat gravy for breakfast, it's also not a barm cake it's a muffin. What is this shandy you speak of?
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 14:39 GMT A K Stiles
It's a soft roll by any other name, as any fule kno!
I was thinking it was just about doing okay with the head, and was giving a brief pause to let it settle slightly before finishing the pour, then it did a dodgy Mr. Whippy impression all over the top - the only saving grace being that it was clearly lager and thus not of great interest in the first place.
And you can top that up too! --->
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 13:35 GMT tiggity
I hope that was an oversized glass
As head was huge.
A proper bar person asks what type of head a customer wants - preferences vary a lot. Some people like a frothy head whilst at teh other extreme others like a flat pint.
.. though in my days of bar work I worked in a traditional boozer, and it was bitter drinkers (of which there were many, rather than lager philes) who cared about head.
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 14:08 GMT IanDs
As any fule know, the beer glasses -- at Narita, in Japan and in most of Europe -- are lined to leave room for the head, not to be filled to the brim. Anyone whining because their beer isn't filled to the top, go back to England where pubs often serve beer with a head in glasses designed to be filled to the brim...
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 20:53 GMT John Brown (no body)
"Your head the morning after a skin full of NBA -->"
No real aficionado would refer to it as NBA. It;s Nukie Broon (which fits the icon better too)
Of course, now that's not even brewed in Geordieland, let alone Newcastle, it's not the same anyway, so re-branding as NBA might not be a bad thing.
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 15:11 GMT John 110
Heard in the pub I used to work in (working class - Scottish)
"Could you fit a nip in there?"
"Aye"
"Well top it up then, I asked for a Pint"
Tradition was to hand over the first pint while filling the rest, the punter would drink the first mouthful, then ask for a topup (used the honesty principle to ensure that the first mouthful wasn't pint-sized)
Ah the seventies - where did they go?
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 17:52 GMT TrumpSlurp the Troll
Geographical thing
Used to be around Derbyshire and Nottinghmshire where they started to screw in the sparklers on the hand pump to get more head on the beer.
Dahn sarf served nicely flat (sparkler often left off the pump) - as also found in proper pubs where the beer barrel was on a cold shelf and the beer was run into an enamel jug then poured into a glass. None of this beer engine crap.
Get as far north as Manchester and the sound of a pint being pulled was more like that of a cat with the squitters (don't ask) with all the artificial fizz being forced in. Didn't seem to damage the taste, though.
Ah, beer. Getting ugly men laid since history began. :-)
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 18:19 GMT Stevie
Bah!
A fucking variable geometry vending machine is not a bartending robot!
That would be either the half-man, half-segway thing from "Passengers" or a mobile Realdoll that would let you cop a look down the cleavage as she pours a pint from the beer engine using her deceptively strong arms.
Enough with this bogus goalpost-shifting and playing-field shortening! There's enough of that going on in the A.I. and Nanotech fields.
A robot is either an anthropomorphic machine indistinguishable from a human (or alternatively made of glass-like polymers) or a hulking bipedal death machine bristling with high cyclic-rate weapons of various calibres and fitted with chicken legs!
If it could appear on a clipboard checlikst owned by Rimmer or Lister, it's a bloody vending machine!
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 21:04 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: Bah!
"If it could appear on a clipboard checlikst owned by Rimmer or Lister, it's a bloody vending machine!"
And based on the article, it doesn't do feedback or analysis, so is in no way a robot. It just follows a precise and pre-programmed sequence of events that requires each beer selections to be understood and consistent between deliveries. If they change to very different type of beer, it will need to be re-programmed for that beer because it can't learn from it's actions and results.
And anyway, there's no such thing as a generally acceptable "perfect pint" because different beers and different people have their own standards of perfection. My perfect pint WILL NOT be designed and dictated by some marketdroid at $big_beer_co
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Tuesday 20th February 2018 23:19 GMT PhilipN
Re: Bah!
Agree somewhat less than robotic (like some barmaids I have known) and don't understand technical terms such as "variable" and "geometry" but might I suggest the magic is inside the spout.
[ Cue Mel Smith "She's a bit loively tonoight" and pull out a shovel to clear the rising tide of foam. ]
Which suggests the magic is inside the liquid stuff (but we all knew that).
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Wednesday 21st February 2018 15:24 GMT Stevie
Re: Bah!
don't understand technical terms such as "variable" and "geometry"
From the article:
First, the glass is tilted to the perfect angle for the initial pour. At the midway point the angle of pouring changes to avoid an over-froth scenario. Finally, the glass returns to vertical and a last squirt of foam ensures the perfect head*.
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Wednesday 21st February 2018 00:44 GMT The Oncoming Scorn
Empty Vessels
Seeing the amount of beer that gets poured here in Canada & the amount of head that's scraped off & wasted during the pouring process makes me a little upset, especially when the amount of head left disappears seconds after it's finally put in front of you, leaving about a CM gap gets me even more irked..
Especially when I poured beer back in the UK in my younger days with the glass tilted to the perfect angle for the initial pour etc etc etc. finishing with a quick top off of the head.